Alexey Peshkov is a great Russian writer, better known by his pseudonym "Maxim Gorky". His pen belongs to short stories, novels and novels, plays and literary essays, which describe the life of his contemporaries of various layers of Russian society, the spiritual searches of heroes. The talent of Alexei Gorky is on a par with the work of Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoevsky and other Russian writers.
Alexei Maximovich Gorky is a great Russian writer, whose work is well known both in Russia and abroad. Only Gorky is not his true surname, but a pseudonym. Real name - Alexey Maksimovich Peshkov. The writer was born in March 1868 in the city of Nizhny Novgorod. His father was a carpenter, died when Alyosha was still a child. His childhood and youth were quite difficult. Perhaps that is why when he began to write, he took himself such an unusual pseudonym - "bitter" as a reminder of his bitter and difficult life.
Youth of Gorky
The childhood and youth of Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov was really very difficult. As mentioned above, he became an orphan early, lost his father, who was a very good man and loved his son very much. After the death of the father, the boy moves with his mother to live in the family with his maternal grandfather. Grandfather was very cool and rude in dealing with loved ones, which also did not bring joy to children's life. Alexey Maksimovich very early began to earn his own living. He really wanted to go to university. In 1884, he even specially came to Kazan to enter a local university. But he didn’t succeed. This was the first and last attempt in Gorky’s life to enter study. But despite the fact that he does not have a diploma of education, he could rightfully be considered an educated person. All the knowledge that he managed to get, he received thanks to the iron willpower and a great desire to learn.
Suicide attempt
In the life of Gorky, there was one event that the writer never liked to remember. It happened in 1887. He tried to commit suicide. Evil tongues said that he did this from hopelessness, from constant want and excessive fatigue. He shot himself with a revolver. The wound was not serious, the writer recovered very quickly. But as he later told himself, he did this only in order to try to relive and feel all those feelings that his character experienced.
Alexey Maksimovich Peshkov traveled a lot in his life. He walked almost half of Russia on foot, and had been abroad more than once. During the revolutionary events in the country, he took a direct part, for which he was subsequently called the "poet of the revolution." The most famous works of Gorky are: the famous novel "Thomas Gordeev", "Makar Chudra", plays "Petty Bourgeois", "At the bottom", "Barbara", "Vassa Zheleznova", "Old Woman Izergil", "Song of the Petrel, novel" Mother ", the autobiographical trilogy" Childhood ", " In People ", " My Universities "and others.
